I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.